CohenTheBlue

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A barbarian who just wants to get along.

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2026-08-30 10:52:39 GMT

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Gut feeling / educated guess? Swedish usage is less than 1 % of US usage and US practices are more widely spread in the world due to the sheer monetary pressure and influence.
I'm fairly certain Sweden is the unicorn in this, working enforcement is still quite rare in the rest of the world, even if regulations exist. EU countries are rich and can afford it, most countries focus on primary needs like health and education.
China seems all in for the surveillance value, no limits.

2026-08-15 20:36:42 GMT

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So... Claude actually didn't train by DDoSing small free software projects? That's not actually a worldwide problem?
I don't get it, what exactly am I generalizing? Besides perhaps that one of the most well regulated and functioning countries does not actually allow owners of LLM corporations to run wild building data centers.
The whole is always the point, not specific exceptions.
P.S I don't know what you mean with the second paragraph.

2026-08-15 20:26:01 GMT

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The usefulness is not debated, that's case by case, situational.
It's obviously the source of training, reasons LLMs are being adopted by businesses, environmental effects of the nonsensical use of LLMs simply to increase market share and influence.
Can you honestly say those issues are completely separate from your personal use of LLMs?
EDIT: Where did the training originate? Instead of free software we now have walled software generators.

2026-07-19 03:04:51 GMT

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I can't find anything by Jo Nagai or Martha Weiss related to butterflies on
https://arxiv.org
Do you have the source for the actual paper?
It's probably just unpublished, I think.
https://biology.georgetown.edu/news-story/new-podcast-features-georgetown-entomologists-collaboration-with-precociousjapanese-butterfly-researcher/
https://www.upworthy.com/ten-year-old-butterfly-researcher-discovers-that-memories-an-be-passed-down-through-generations/
EDIT: I actually searched for Weiss (then butterfl from the results), somehow brain transformed it to Wells here. Fixed, thanks @npub1m8g…5w9t

2026-07-16 11:39:45 GMT

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I believe the most important and widespread harm of pushing LLMs is companies doing that get the most use out of this by threatening workers (AI will replace you, be more efficient or else).
Everything else from theft, environmental impact, surveillance abuse and deskilling to what's in the linked comic is extra.
https://www.savagechickens.com/2024/04/haagen-bot.html

2025-01-28 07:28:23 GMT

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Why do you think people working on AI are superbrains anywhere? Nothing that would suggest actual intelligence has emerged in all these years... Seems more likely that people creating AI models are fairly mediocre brains specialized in one or a few fields and hardware optimization is not among those fields. Chinese have the requirement to do that better because they have no alternative. Just like any other war, trade war creates solutions by necessity.

2025-01-25 20:22:24 GMT

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AOC has always been on TikTok and Instagram.

2024-12-02 07:02:04 GMT

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I'd make sure Summer doesn't eat or chew the pieces of blinds. Even if made of wood they're probably treated with some kind of toxic additive.

2024-11-27 10:46:19 GMT

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You'd spare people much confusion simply splitting up your posts by starting them with 1/n and using full words...

2024-11-27 10:44:52 GMT

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EDIT: (EDIT2 , EDIT3) has been the form to mark editing for me when I do it.

2024-11-27 10:44:42 GMT

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all links are 22 characters, I could not explain much by excluding the links. Simpler english is probably better left to you since you'll be engaging and I thought my explanation was simple enough.
I tried to design my post as a very brief intro with the most important parts in the post.
I'm not a native speaker either. It is, however, my assumption that those who read my posts speak english as the language of posts can be selected when writing them (or at server level).

2024-11-27 10:22:15 GMT

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what is Bs? I'm assuming it's bullshit or something similar... in which case I don't really understand the whole sentence.

2024-11-27 10:18:08 GMT

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Perhaps unrelated: what is ETA in this context? I know it as Estimated Time to Arrival.
I tend to not use short forms without explaining them since language is personal to everyone, with differences in meaning even in what might seem very common words and phrases.

2024-11-27 10:15:07 GMT

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I've no advice on increasing reach as that's not my goal.
My hopefully helpful post about mastodon is pinned on my profile, with links to other sources I found most helpful.
https://ohai.social/@cohentheblue/113484651847208260

2024-08-25 07:58:30 GMT

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Simple: suddenly cutting the connection during ongoing operations causes more ukrainian casualties than not letting them use the connection at all and having to plan for that from the beginning. Possibly also because Musk just didn't know Ukraine had access, or he didn't think about it other than bigger number better.

2024-08-04 10:30:25 GMT

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In areas where there's local limestone, it's still widely used for especially foundations. Walls are mostly wood for the better insulation and flexibility. Log cabins don't even need that much of a foundation as the logs are plenty stiff if they have a foundation post under every corner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3J5wkJFJzE
Now to stop using plastic foam and other non recycleable insulation that's horrible for human health... There's plenty of plant fibre for it.

2024-08-04 10:09:07 GMT

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In Estonia we have a company producing lego like concrete blocks, I assume similar stuff can be found elsewhere. For most smaller buildings and 1 story warehouses and things this should be plenty, no need for any other bonds as the blocks are massive and hold together with gravity. The only need might be to coat the joints with something to achieve insulation as the blocks are produced with 1 mm of tolerance.
https://vmtbetoon.ee/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DJI_0129-1-1200x675.jpg